10 REASONS NOT TO WORRY
Being in your presence, thank you lord. Thank you for calling us to calling us to your glory, to your kingdom. Thank you for helping us make that decision.
Thank you, Lord. This week we’re going to be talking about 10 things, maybe 11, things of not to worry, 10 things not to worry. We went through last year and many things was happening in our lives and many times we worried about things.
We worried about our lives, we worried about our finances, we worried about being sick, we worried about our other family members, we worried about our jobs and it’s a constant time that we continue to worry about things even after as believers we have seen god do it over and over and over again for us. It is a struggle in our lives to think and fear about the future, about the things that are coming up, not knowing. We think about Jacob and when we think about the parathas for this week, Miketz, which means that it is at the end, Ambaleshi, which is at his presence, we think about Jacob and all these struggles that Jacob has went through.
He is now going to the land of Egypt and he’s thinking about Joseph and he was worried about Joseph when he passed away. He was suffering, he was in mourning and he was worried about the land when it came down to famine. He was worried about his family, what they’re going to do, what they’re going to eat and then they went to Egypt and the pharaoh there, which was Joseph, the second in command, he wanted Benjamin to come.
When the prophets came back and told Jacob this, he was like, no, you’re not going to take my Benjamin. He was worried about Benjamin and then he was also worried about Simeon, who was also held in Egypt. As that is, we are also worried about many things.
Think about Jacob, before that, he was worrying about his brother Esau getting into a fight with him. So there is a constant worrying and a constant worry that he had to go about giving up and relinquishing that worry by trusting God and trusting in the Lord. What is it that you are worried about today? What is it that is struggling in your heart? What is it that you’re thinking about in the future, the present, that is bothering you, that you want to do something about it? God will give you the strength.
We think about our future in Matthew 6, 24. He says, no one can be a slave of two masters. A lot of times, things that are usually people think about is about a job or money.
And this Bible verse is telling us that we shouldn’t be worried about money, that we cannot be a slave to money and to God. He tells us another thing that people constantly worry about is about their sickness. And in Exodus 23, 25, he tells us, you are to serve and honor your God, and he will bless you with your food and with your water, and he will take sickness away from you.
One of the things that people in general worry about is about their children. But he tells us in Proverbs 6 that we shouldn’t be worrying about our children, that if we train up our child, in Proverbs 22, if we train up a child, he will go the way that he should. So Jacob was worrying about all these things.
And then we turn around and we think about Pharaoh. Pharaoh was also worrying about something. He was having these dreams, and nobody could interpret the dreams that he was having.
So, he was being worried, he was suffering with his dreams over and over again. Until he found the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And Joseph came and revealed his dreams to Pharaoh.
What causes worries? The main thing is fear. Fear of not knowing the future, not knowing that things are going to turn out. And this causes anxiety.
It causes suffering in our hearts. It causes depression. And we continue to worry about things.
In Matthew 6, 25-26, it says, Therefore I tell you, don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body. What you will wear, isn’t it a lot more than food and a lot more than clothing? Look at the birds flying about. They need a plan to harbor, nor do they gather food into bars.
Yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you more worth it than they are? We’re going to be looking at some reasons why we shouldn’t be worrying about things. Things that we can probably apply this year because we continuously worry.
One of the reasons that we shouldn’t worry is that God loves us. God loves us. He says in John 15, 9-11, Just as my Father has loved me, I have also loved you.
So, stay in my love. If you keep my commands, you will stay in my love. Just as I kept my commands, I stay in my Father’s love.
So, he continues to say that if we continue to be in His love, His joy will be in us and we will be complete. God loves us. No matter what’s going on in our lives, He loves us.
He doesn’t want anyone to perish. Another reason we should not be worrying is that God has a plan. He has a plan for your life.
Psalm 139, 15-16, My bones were not hidden from you when I was being made secret indifferently woven in the depth of the earth. Your eyes could see me as an embryo, but in your book, all my days were already written. My days had been shaped before any of them existed.
Another reason we shouldn’t be worried is that God gives us all things. He gives us all things. Romans 8, 32-37, He who did not spare even his own son, but gave him up on behalf of us all.
It is possible that having given us his son, he will not give up everything else also for two. So who will bring a charge against God’s people? Certainly not God. He is the one who causes them to be considered righteous.
Who punishes them? Certainly not the Messiah, Yeshua, who died and more than that, he has raised us at the right hand of God and is actually pleading on our behalf. Who will separate us from the love of the Messiah? Trouble, hardship, persecution, hunger, poverty, danger, war. As the Tanakh puts it, for your sake we are being put to death all day long.
We are considered sheep to be slaughtered. Knowing all these things, we are super conquerors through the one who has loved us. Yeshua is there for us.
Another reason we shouldn’t be worried is that God will protect us. God will protect us. Matthew 10, 29-31.
Aaron’s sparrow sold for next to nothing, two for an assertion, and an assertion is less than a third of a penny. It’s almost nothing. Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s consent.
As for you, every hair on your head has been counted. So do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.
God will protect us. Another reason that we should not be afraid or we should not be worried, God hears your prayers. We can communicate with God.
We can talk to him. Philippians 4, 6-7. Don’t worry about anything.
On the contrary, make your request not to God by prayer or petition, with thanksgiving. Then God’s shalom passing all understanding will keep your hearts and minds set in union with the Messiah, Yeshua. Another reason we should not worry is God is always with us.
God is always with us. John 14, 15-18. If you love me, you will keep my commands.
And I will ask the Father, and the Father, he will give you another comforting counselor like me, the Spirit of truth, to be with you forever. The world has deceived him because it neither sees nor knows him. You know him because he is staying with you and will be united with you.
I will not leave you orphans. I am coming to you. He’s always with us.
We’re not alone in our sufferings, in our troubles, in our tribulations, in decisions that we have to make. He’s always there. We can always ask him.
Another very important thing is God understands us. How many people, how many people understand you? How many people in this world understand you? Probably nobody really understands you. God, though, he understands us.
He understands our very being. Before we even think, he knows what we’re thinking. Proverbs 3, 5, 6. Trust him not a lie with all your heart.
Do not rely on your understanding. All your ways acknowledge him, and he will level your path. Another reason why we shouldn’t worry is that God forgives us.
God forgives us. 1 John 1, 9. We will acknowledge our sins, then since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing. Another reason why we should not be worried is God gives us guidance.
That’s very important. God gives us guidance. 1 Timothy 1, 7. For God gave us a spirit who produces not activity, but power, love, and self-discipline.
Another reason is that God gives us something very important, shalom. He gives us peace. John 14, 27, 28.
What I am leaving with you is shalom. I am giving you my shalom. I don’t give it the way the world gives it.
Don’t let yourself be upset or frightened. You heard me tell you. I am leaving and I will come back to you.
If you love me, you will have been glad that I am going to the Father because the Father is greater than I am. Another one, and this is number 11. The extra one, the one that is the super of supers, is that through all of that, going through our worries and going here and there, if we submit to our Father, we have something great and that’s eternal life.
John 14, 1-3. Don’t let yourself be disturbed. Trust in God and trust in me.
In my Father’s house are many places to live. If there weren’t, I would tell you because I am going there to prepare a place for you. Since I am going there to prepare a place for you, I will return to take you back to the place where I am.
We can be confident that in God we do not need to worry about things. So if we get worried about things, what can we do to get away from that worry? One of the things that we can do is trust God, trust Yeshua. In Matthew 6, 28-34, it tells us, and why be anxious about clothing? Think about the fields of the wild lilies and how they grow.
They neither work nor stay in thread, yet I tell you that not even Solomon, on all his glory, was clothed as beautiful as one of these. If this is how God clothes grass in the field, which is there today and gone tomorrow, thrown in the oven, won’t He wash more clothes than you? What little clothes do you have? So don’t be anxious, asking, what will I eat? What will I drink? Or what will be my clothes? For it is the pagans who set their hearts on all these things. Your Heavenly Father knows you need them all.
But seek first the Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Don’t worry about tomorrow. Tomorrow will worry about itself.
Today has enough suris, meaning troubles, already. So we can get to the Word of God if we get worried about something. Another thing that we can do when we get worried is have self-control of our thoughts.
Self-discipline. Self-control. Because we start thinking things that are not even true.
Imaginations of our minds. Matthew 4, 8-9. In conclusion, brothers, focus your thoughts on what is true, noble, righteous, pure, lovable, admirable.
On something virtuous, on something praiseworthy. Keep doing what you have learned and received from me. What you have heard and seen me doing.
Then the God who gives you shalom will be with you. Another thing that if we see that worrying creeping up into our lives that we can do is pray. We need to pray to God.
Jacob prayed in Genesis 43-14 when he knew that he could do nothing about it, he had to send Benjamin and he went and prayed. May El Shaddai give you favor, he was talking to the sons, in the men’s sight, which is Joseph, so that he will release to you your older brother as well as Benjamin. As for me, if I must lose my children, lose them, I will.
Another thing that we see, we see this worryness creeping out into our lives, we need to think positive. Because we are important. We need to take all the negative out of our lives and think about positive things.
Ephesians 2-10. For we are of God’s making, created in union with the Messiah, Yeshua, for a life of good action, already prepared by God for us to do. And then there’s another Bible verse, Proverbs 8, 28-30.
When we think about being worried, we worry about things that we cannot control. We worry about things that are sometimes not even important. We make something very, very little seem huge and big.
But in reality, in the sight of God, it’s very, very small. And we can’t resist at the end, in this parasha, at the end, after we have done everything that we can do, after we have prayed and cried and called out to God and take out our resources, we have to come and we have to be in His presence and call for our hearts, call for our lives, and be in the parasha of Almighty God, in His presence. We have to come to His presence.
And that means that we need help after everything at the end. We need to come to God and trust Him, give Him all our anxieties, give Him all our worries, give Him everything that we have been worrying about all this time. God loves us and He wants to give us a joy in our lives.
He wants that joy to be inside of us, penetrate inside of our minds, in our spirits. At the end, everything of everything that we do, we can only just worship God by our knees, hold ourselves, as Jacob many, many, many times did, and as many people in the Bible that you see that after they were worrying about this, worrying about that, doing this and doing that, there’s nothing else but to admit that there’s a higher power that can help us overcome, overcome the tribulations of this life. Thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Father, because you give us a spirit of victory, a spirit that will be conquerors, a spirit of love. Give us the strength, Father, to continue to be in your love, to continue to have joy in our lives. God, we just thank you, Father.
We thank you that you give us a word that we can go to our scriptures, to the Bibles, and we can read about you, about the history, about your life, about your love, about your giving your blood for us. Thank you, Lord. We surrender.
We surrender all our worries. We give them to you, Father. We say, here I am.
Cleanse us, purify us, take away all the anxiety. And as we go through this year of 2020, we want to continue to be in your presence, not worrying about things, but being in your presence and continuing to do your will in our lives, the plan that you have for each one of us. In the name of Yeshua HaMashiach, we thank you and we pray.
Amen. Thank you, Lord. I will lift my eyes.
I will lift my cares. With them in your hands, I’ll leave them there. When the wind is coming, you shall tell me.
Even though I’m in a storm, the storm is not in me. You’re my comfort when I’m hurting and I can’t get enough. You’re my strength when I’m struggling and I can’t make this right.
You are the greater than you’ve got and you can make my heart. I will trust you. I will feed on you.
I will feed on you. I will feed on you. No power can come against me, because you have overcome.
No darkness can overwhelm me, because you won’t anymore. No power can come against me, because you have overcome. No darkness can overwhelm me, because you won’t anymore.
You’re my comfort when I’m hurting and I can’t get enough. You’re my strength when I’m struggling and I can’t make this right. You are the greater than you’ve got and you can make my heart.
I will trust you. I will feed on you. Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you’ve given us.
Thank you, Lord. Let’s say this prayer together. Thank you for your word.
Help us this week to think about your word. For the word of God is alive and active, sharper than any nobless sword. It penetrates deep into the body, soul and spirit, joints and marrow.
It judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart and mind. And Yeshua replied, My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. Thank you, Lord.
Shabbat Shalom. That’s it. Thank you.
God bless you. Shabbat Shalom. Shabbat Shalom, Sam.
Thank you, Sam. Shabbat Shalom.
